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Catocala . ( Plate xliv, fig. 3.) 



Color grayish brown. Head marked with a white spot between the eyes. Thorax black, 

 marked by three transverse reddish bands. Abdomen dusky, with a reddish hue. 

 Forewings brown, marked with pale cinnamon bands. Hindwings black, marked with 

 two carmine zigzag bands, and a submarginal one more or less interrupted : edge 

 dressed with carmine. 



Catocala epione. ( Plate xlii, fig. 8.) 



Thorax and abdomen sooty ash-color. Wings crenate ; the anterior ones dark chocolate, 

 marked with an undulating dark ferruginous line running from the anterior to the 

 posterior edge : another line of the same color crosses the wing near its articulation ; 

 a broad dark patch occupying one-third of the wing's surface, showing within two 

 oval lighter spots. The whole appearance of the wing is nebulous, exhibiting broad 

 belts and dark and ferruginous lines arranged transversely. Posterior wing dark or 

 black, lighter along the abdominal border : cilia white. 

 Inferior side, the anterior wings are dark ashy at the base, and become black towards 

 the outer edges, but the tips are soot-colored : external margin ornamented with 

 seven whitish spots, above which there is a white line running from the antericr to 

 the posterior margin, and narrowing as it goes. There is a large oblong whitish spot 

 between the line and shoulders. Posterior wings, upon their abdominal margin, ash- 

 color, deepening to black : a faint white streak runs a short distance down the wing 

 from the anterior margin. Spread of the wings 2 inches 6 lines. 



Catocala affixis. Painted Catocalla. ( Plate xlii, fig. 5.) 



Phal.ena ( Linnaeus). Catocala (Schrank). 



Antenna? filiform, obscurely serrate upon the inferior side : tongue coiled, of a moderate 

 length : feelers thick, hairy and pointed. Anterior wings ashy gray, marked by a 

 wide line or narrow belt of a chocolate color, running from near the base of the 

 anterior margin towards the outer posterior angle, when it becomes a zigzag line 

 terminating in the anterior margin towards the outer angle : outer margin marked 

 by obscure short lines of a chocolate-color. Posterior wings orange, marked by black 

 or dusky belts parallel with each other ; the outer belt parallel with the posterior 

 margin, leaving an orange patch upon the outer angle, and dots posteriorly : a black 

 line runs parallel with the inner margin, terminating at its base. Inferior side marked 

 by alternating belts of orange and fuscous ; margin and base lighter colored : the 

 colors are all dull and faded below. Head and thorax dusky. Abdomen dusky above 

 and light below. Expanse of wing 1| inches. 



